|
2/4
|
88%
|
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
It is colossally, memorably and audaciously boring, but if you stick with it - and I am not advising this - something may happen."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
13%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
As a director, Madonna has flair without ability, but she does have flair."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
53%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
"Safe House" is an idea for a movie."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
In his first film as a director, Fiennes proves that he knows Fiennes the actor inside out, with a self-knowledge that's rare, even admirable."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Big Miracle (2012) |
"
Instead of this being a story of a bunch of lovely people doing a lovely thing, it's rather the story of average people who become much better people as a result of doing a lovely thing, even though some start out doing it for less than noble reasons."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
32%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
"Man on a Ledge" doesn't aim high, but what it aims to do, it does."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
Characters as out of touch and desperate as Albert Nobbs awaken an instinctive doubt and distrust in an audience."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
Cherry Tree Lane () |
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 24, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
You don't love movies if the sight of Gina Carano beating up every guy in sight doesn't make you laugh, get happy and feel as if you're getting your money's worth."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
45%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
The difficulty is mainly with the story, which despite all the emotion hovering around it, remains thin and uninvolving."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
Hipsters (2011) |
"
Aside from what we get in the big dance scene, the songs are of little interest, and each one feels like an intrusion."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
Contraband (2012) |
"
In order to pay it forward, Wahlberg needs to direct it somewhere else, and on and on, until every country has a version of this thing."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Streep's performance is so true and so uncannily accurate, so full and so complete in its understanding, that she is fascinating every second she is onscreen."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
It's a movie about what it's like to almost make it in the music business, but not really, not quite. It's about coming close and watching it slip away."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
54%
|
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) |
"
A mix of the powerful and the ridiculous, and eventually the ridiculous wins."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
13%
|
I Melt with You (2011) |
"
It really is good, albeit in ways that are different from other movies."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
Yes, this is a Steven Spielberg picture. He directed it and, like Blondie in the old song, he's gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, one way or another."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
The Swedish version was originally made for television and seen in installments. Fincher's movie is 158 minutes and meant to be seen in one shot - and that's precisely how those 158 minutes go by, in a shot."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
41%
|
Footprints (2011) |
"
It's original and poetic, and if you see it you will probably remember scenes from it a year from now, because it's not really like anything else."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
When at one point Jung spanks his patient, you may completely miss the erotic content and simply think what I thought - that somebody, finally, was punishing Knightley for this performance."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
There's nothing here but wreckage. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is so ineptly made that the story is advanced solely through announcements."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
18%
|
A Warrior's Heart (2011) |
"
Everything that happens is certain to happen from the first minutes, and the only hope is that these things might happen quickly or in some new or interesting way. They don't."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
45%
|
Another Happy Day (2011) |
"
Combines some of the stock elements of a family film with an extra something - a go-for-the-jugular quality, a kind of Ingmar Bergman-like honesty and viciousness that brings it up a notch."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
What can be said about a movie that is nice and awful? That has a warm spirit and is 100 percent phony? That has all the stars in the galaxy and all the appeal of rotting fish?"
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
A dark comedy that confirms Diablo Cody as a screenwriter of importance, eliminates the last shred of doubt that Jason Reitman is a major director and gives Charlize Theron her best showcase since "Monster.""
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
56%
|
Seducing Charlie Barker (2011) |
"
Everything about this movie feels right, from its sardonic score to its assured camera work and cutting."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
In many ways - in all ways - "The Artist" is a profound achievement."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Tomboy (2011) |
"
Sciamma has wound back the clock to childhood to show us, with taste and sensitivity, something we have not seen."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
To have Marilyn Monroe kiss you and say that she loves you (whether or not she means it) -- imagine what that would mean in a man's life, not only in 1956, but decades after that, when he's middle-aged or old."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Ultimately, the biggest disappointment of Hugo is that it fails to make the case for 3-D as a legitimate tool for the serious filmmaker."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
47%
|
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2011) |
"
It stars Kristin Scott Thomas, in one of those French roles she usually excels at. But the movie is a mess."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Young Goethe In Love (2011) |
"
We get a classic situation, but no less potent for its being familiar. As always, the personalities make or break it, and here they make it."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
44%
|
Happy Feet Two (2011) |
"
The movie's bereftness of invention can be measured by how no story element builds on another. Instead, "Happy Feet Two" is plotted so that a bunch of disparate things happen, until it's time to end the movie."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
It's more straightforward and sentimental than most Payne films, and at times it lands very close to sitcom territory. But it also has scenes as wrenching and as true as any onscreen this year."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Il etait une fois le Havre, son port, ses navires () |
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 11, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
The Finnish director's sense of humor is dry and dark as pitch, as he consistently finds moments of absurdity in the midst of strife and tragedy."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
78%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
If only Lars von Trier took into account that audiences might actually want to enjoy "Melancholia," rather than endure it, or sift through it, or submit to the director's will, he might have made something extraordinary."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
Lazy and slapdash, the work of a comedian trusting too much in his own hilariousness."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
Too ambiguous, too gentle and too noncommittal to get the job done."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 9, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
73%
|
Revenge of the Electric Car (2011) |
"
The movie is interesting now and, given its subject, should even be more interesting in about a hundred years. Stick around."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
A romantic drama that makes other romantic films look obvious and calculated in comparison."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
48%
|
Man From Nowhere (2010) |
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
The Rum Diary (2011) |
"
It flirts with becoming a great journalism tale, or at least a whimsical journalism tale, but that vein leads nowhere, too. Nor is it much of anything else, except a disordered ramble through Thompson's creative imagination."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
37%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
Not for one moment does Niccol compromise this serious sci-fi world, and yet he hits all the marks for crowd-pleasing mass entertainment: "In Time" never stops moving."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
Two long hours of murky photography and slow-motion storytelling, in which the audience is always 10 scenes ahead of the action."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
71%
|
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011) |
"
Alas, "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" loses steam and grows more perfunctory as it wears on."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
The Women on the 6th Floor (2011) |
"
The period detail grounds it and gives us an interesting look into class as it existed in France some 45 years ago."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
The Mighty Macs (2011) |
"
Sports movies live and die by what takes place on the court or in the field, and this one feels rather rote."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
38%
|
Johnny English Reborn (2011) |
"
The movie feels about 10 minutes too long. Still the laughs, including the big laughs, keep coming right up to the closing seconds."
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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